how to use laravel auth for external api

we have created a restful api using laravel which is working fine for andriod now my boss want me to create web application using the same api now i want to create another auth for web application but username and password will match to api. Api will create a token and i want to use that token in the application.

my authention code

protected function authenticated(Request $request)
{

if(strtolower(auth()->user()->status) == strtolower('active')) {
       $this->get_menu($request);
        return redirect('/home');

    }
  else{
auth()->logout();
return redirect('login');
    }

}

if any one have any better solution then please guide me.

via Chebli Mohamed